What is an International Education

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What is an International Education?
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What is an International Education?

• Process Content
• Product or Outcomes

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Process Content

• Learning at a host institution (overseas)
• Multicultural classrooms
• Sharing responding to the experiences of others
• Running throughout the curriculum
• Experiential discussion-based activities
• Caring, co-operative and open outlook
• Global context of knowledge
• Perspective (rather than subject matter)

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Outcomes - Perspectives

• Shift in perspective from parochial to
  international
• Seeing the world rather than home as the sphere
  in which we operate.
• Self understanding recognition of our place in
  the world

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Outcomes - Knowledge

• Knowledge of place in the world
• Knowledge of cultures of the UK, other countries,
  other groups
• Knowledge of the causes of poverty inequality
  (at home and overseas)
• Knowledge of the (global) environment
• Understanding other cultures and perspectives (in
  out of discipline)

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Outcomes Self Development

• Opening minds to the world beyond
• Realization of other approaches to life and
  recognition as equally valid
• Learning about new ways of thinking, doing
  being
• Developing a set of values
• Ability willingness to change grow
• Ability to make sense of information and opinion

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What is an International Education?

• What is an education?
• What is international?

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What is an Education?

• Public Good or Private Good?
• Multidimensional Citizenship
• Major Issues
• Climate change
• The globalisation of trade
• Population shifts (mobility, inequality,
  demographics)
• The twin threats of terrorism and of the
  responses to terrorism

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What is International?

• Beyond EU, Bolognia, and all that
• Does not start at Dover.
• A Pluralist HE Institution

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Pluralistic HEI

• Plurality of theories methods
• Internationalized faculty/ student body
• Cultural linguistic diversity
• Different approaches/theories etc are presented
  and confronted
• Open to difference and to new ideas
• Multiple perspectives
• Diverse campus community
• Educational activities influenced by diverse
  cultures
• Opportunities to engage in international
  experiences

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What is an International Education?

• rationale
• processes
• content
• outcomes (products)
• ethos

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Corporate Plan

• To develop students international opportunities
  and global perspectives, ensuring that an
  international, multi-cultural ethos pervades the
  university.